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A live-streaming app called Meerkat, calls to online activism and pedicabs with a "Game of Thrones" Iron throne seat were the top topics of conversation at South by Southwest over the weekend, as 33,000-plus members of the technology, marketing and media industries poured into Austin, Texas. "You never know what's around the corner at South By Southwest, it could be a small thing or it could be life changing," said David Rubin, Pinterest's head of brand, at the social media company's annual barbecue on Saturday. He said the festival is a good place to schmooze with clients and do some recruiting. "Pinterest is about creativity and the employee base is...

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A live-streaming app called Meerkat, calls to online activism and pedicabs with a "Game of Thrones" Iron throne seat were the top topics of conversation at South by Southwest over the weekend, as 33,000-plus members of the technology,...

Disney has come out with another in its Disney Dream Portrait series shot by photographer Annie Leibovitz.This time Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson, who began her entertainment career singing aboard the Disney Wonder, took on the role of Tiana from...

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MTV has decided to take a walk on the wild side and install Russell Brand as host of the MTV Movie Awards. Those prizes will be handed out at 9 p.m. June 3. In a statement, Brand said: “This MTV Movie Awards will be more impressive than ‘The Avenge

The remake of “Arthur” goes wrong some time before the tipsy millionaire shows up in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. It's merely the latest amble into tone-deafness for a movie that, despite a lot of funny lines and a committed performance by the

“Hop” opened huge last weekend and held on to enough of that audience to win this weekend as well. Over $21 million, at this point. Enjoy it, Universal. I've seen Fox's “Rio,” which is so good you'd never believe those “Ice Age

The box office “actuals” — money in hand – for last weekend (not the estimates of what Sunday would bring) put “Hanna,” a superb thriller, in second place and Russell Brand's not-awful-but-not-that-good “Arthur”

Russell Brand will play a nightclub owner in “Rock of Ages,” the big screen version of the hair metal revue that took Broadway by storm. Mary J. Blige, Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough, Paul Giamatti and Alec Baldwin are also confirmed in the cast. But A

His bride, Katy Perry, is touring the Land of the Rising Sun and glowing reactors. But when Russell Brand came along for the ride, he wasn't reckoning that the Japanese would remember his ages-old drug addictions and arrests. They've deported him, Katy tweeted

The long Memorial Day holiday weekend was a chance to catch up on all sorts of films Ive been meaning to get to — documentaries, mainly (Though I did plow through the Andy Serkis star turn as rocker Ian Drury “Sex, Drugs & Rock'n Roll.” A

Can he sing? Will they dub? A passable substitute for Jon Bon Jovi? Cruise's character sings “Wanted: Dead or Alive” in the musical “Rock of Ages,” now filming in Miami. Stacee Jaxx is the character's name and here's the first “of

I can't recall the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences adding quite so many people to its voting ranks at one time. But they have, from Mila Kunis and Jennifer Lawrence to Gerard Butler, Bradley Cooper and Russell Brand. Jesse Eisenberg, Wes Studi (Y

So they are making a movie of “Rock of Ages,” the Broadway musical built around “hair-metal” rock songs of the 1980s — and Orlando's Studio K recently served as an Orlando casting location. Studio K, which offers a selection of d

Season two of "Teen Wolf" starts with episodes at 11 p.m. Sunday after the MTV Movie Awards on MTV. The next episode debuts at 10 p.m. Monday. Secret romance will test Scott (Tyler Posey) and Allison (Crystal Reed) as one of her scary relatives comes on the sc

Was “Arthur” an epic hit for the WB? Not really. Actually, “epic fail” seems on the mark. Not a terrible movie, but nobody showed up. Will “Rock of Ages” be a smash? Possibly. Russell Brand, the errant husband of Katy Perry

Ok, so who IS that wigged/bearded Vegas stage magician-vampire “expert” who steals ever so many scenes as the leather-loving drunk called on to use his expertise off stage to fend off real vampires in “Fright Night?” Who who? Dr. Who,

Lynch said that the Do Something Awards are not a warm-up for her hosting the Emmys on Sept. 19. "It's important its own right," Lynch said of the Do Something telecast. She won last year for "Glee," and she is an Emmy nominee again this year. But she said th

Can a 3D horror movie be a thing of beauty? In the case of the remake of “Fright Night,” the answer is “Yes!” This violent and violently funny vampire tale covers no new ground, sporting the same jokey tone as the original. But there's

Julianne Hough is in demand ahead of what could be her breakout film, her sexy turn in the “Footloose” remake. Now The Hollywood Reporter says that the dancer turned singer turned actress has been announced as the lead in Diablo “Juno”